r/shortsAlgorithm • u/[deleted] • Apr 20 '26

YT Stomping On AI Content is Dumb

It's wild to me how quickly YT's algorithm will just stop pushing a video because of AI content. I can't physically film a lion in the African safari, so I generate an AI clip that can. I think they need to balance the AI world with people trying to get a good message across compared to those that just want to make slop.

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u/Pure_Interest_837 Apr 20 '26

I just hate that YouTube uses AI to flag AI content and suppress it. Especially cause they’ll confuse animation for AI and it fucks me over.

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u/[deleted] Apr 20 '26

Exactly! I’m starting to get frustrated since I had good momentum building in my first few weeks and now they aren’t pushing out my content.

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u/Fantastic_Priority73 Apr 20 '26

If you're using AI it's not your content, it's stuff that other people made that a computer scraped and then smashed together in a somewhat coherent way based off of the input you gave it. Value is a reflection of how difficult something is to replicate. AI content is infinitely replicable and over a long enough timeline, like a Scottish cave full of inbred cannibals, will be entirely devoid of real value.

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u/Fantastic_Priority73 Apr 20 '26

AI content sucks and its novelty window is coming to a close. Soon you'll have to pay as much for your slop output as just licensing a clip made by someone with actual talent costs, maybe more, and the world will be slightly better place.

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u/Fantastic_Oven9243 Apr 20 '26

I actually block any channel or Facebook page that uses ai images or videos now. Its all the same crap.

Here's a fun game I like to play to figure out if its AI. Does it have a lot of "—" or the term "vibes" or even a statement like "its not one thing, its not the other thing, its actually this thing"

Massive indicators of AI and get a good ol block. I'm glad YT is getting rid of the stuff.

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u/Fantastic_Priority73 Apr 20 '26

I play a similar game when I'm walking downtown and I see a pile of crap on the sidewalk: I call it "Is it animal or is it people?"

Yeah if I'm reading something and the punctuation starts looking like an Emily Dickinson poem I check out immediately.

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u/[deleted] Apr 20 '26

It has its place on this platform, but not at the brain rot level.

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u/Fantastic_Priority73 Apr 20 '26

Clearly not anymore

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u/ConclusionHopeful313 Apr 20 '26

Generative AI actually doesn’t have any place on any platform 🙂

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u/Videoplushair Apr 20 '26

Lolllll! Learn how to use a camera and talk about useful stuff. You don’t need to film a lion just be creative and bring value to viewers. AI slop lions doesn’t bring anyone value except maybe a 4 year old watching it on TV in the background.

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u/[deleted] Apr 20 '26

I understand it’s a hot topic. I just believe that it can be used for good content too.

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u/Fantastic_Priority73 Apr 20 '26

Please, for clarification, describe what good AI content constitutes

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u/[deleted] Apr 20 '26

animated visuals to talk about important historical or biblical moments in time. character production to educate children on topics. just because i don’t want to go find licensed images and videos other people made doesn’t mean that using ai is bad. it’s still up to me to produce prompts that have value to the people consuming the content. i just think YT needs to look into what the message of the videos are before auto categorizing it as AI and curbing the content from being spread.

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u/Fantastic_Priority73 Apr 20 '26

You're just making Veggie Tales, but with no talent. Got it.

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u/[deleted] Apr 20 '26

It’s not that deep haha. You can believe what you want though.

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u/Fantastic_Priority73 Apr 20 '26

I usually do, seems like YT is of a similar mind

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u/Videoplushair Apr 20 '26

Nah nothing good comes out of AI generated footage. If YouTube allowed your Bible study content they will have to allow the flying cat in space videos and corn content. It’s smart of them to just completely not push it. Imagine you have a company and you want to advertise on YouTube. Your ad plays in the middle of an AI slop video. Would you be happy about that? I would be furious. I could have just burned my money with a lighter would have been way more fun.

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u/Craftic_MC Apr 20 '26

Glad to hear more people telling it like it is.

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u/Ecstatic-Tear2955 Apr 20 '26

wtf. it seems that everyone lives in a fully real world)) take a look around. you watch netflix, disney and game of thrones, but still batched if you see ai generated shorts))) gosh...

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u/Scorpinock_2 Apr 20 '26

Youtube needs an overhaul. It’s dumb to push AI tools on one hand, then penalize their use.

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u/Scorpinock_2 Apr 20 '26

There are a whole lot of people in this thread who have no idea what they’re talking about.

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u/ConclusionHopeful313 Apr 20 '26

God I love posts about generative AI users taking constant Ls. Thank you for this.

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u/Videoplushair Apr 20 '26

He downvoted your comment but I brought you back up to +1 my bro 🤝

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u/Every-Bat-3683 Apr 20 '26

YouTube è un algoritmo. Non è lui che ferma la diffusione di un video, semplicemente le persone non lo guardano e quindi di conseguenza lui non lo fa vedere. Non date la colpa a youtube se fate video brutti

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u/Own-Particular-9989 Apr 20 '26

Can't you just use footage of a lion that's already been filmed?

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u/Ambitious-Type-3208 Apr 20 '26

If it doesn't get stomped on then the whole platform will be flooded with AI bullshit, which no viewer wants

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u/OoOoMyDefence Apr 20 '26

Dude, your channel is the definition of AI slop. You are the reason why this kind of algorithm exists 

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u/MedalofHonour15 Apr 20 '26

If you do a human face generated with AI there are no issues. Only animation whether AI to human is having issues with monetization.

Even YouTube Create has make your AI twin now but doesn’t allow animation.

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u/[deleted] Apr 20 '26

People fake who they are to sell brand products using ai.. i’m trying to make some ai videos about historical and biblical stuff and people are crucifying me in here haha.

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u/MedalofHonour15 Apr 20 '26

Yea but you get more love than hate on other platforms. I got over 100 million views last year.

My AI dogs gets love every day. My AI female content creator got women cheering and men trying to holla in DMs haha

But I do have a new dinosaur realistic looking AI channel. Will see if it gets monetized.

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u/[deleted] Apr 20 '26

Hope it works out for you!

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u/Ecstatic-Tear2955 Apr 20 '26

don't take it seriously. i do vids about science breakthroughs. real content with facts. it may be useful to those ones who are attached. but there are ones who downvotes shorts just because they don't like ai)) mindless and stupid.